The ladies of Montgomery presented this flag to the Alabama Secession Convention on 11 January 1861 in the
House Chamber of the State Capitol. "Noli Me Tangere" is Latin for "Touch Me Not".

Ordinance of Secession of Alabama
(Passed in the State Capitol at Montgomery on 11 January 1861, by a vote of 61-39.)

AN ORDINANCEto dissolve the Union between the State of Alabama and other States united under the compact styled "The Constitution
of the United States of America."

WHEREAS, the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States of America,
by a sectional party, avowedly hostile to the domestic institutions and to the peace and security of the people of the State of Alabama, preceded
by many and dangerous infractions of the Constitution of the United States by many of the States and people of the Northern section, is a
political wrong of so insulting and menacing a character as to justify the people of the State of Alabama in the adoption of prompt and decided
measures for their future peace and security; therefore,

Be it declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the State of Alabama now withdraws,
and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as "the United States of America," and henceforth ceases to be one of said United States,
and is, and of right ought to be, a Sovereign and Independent State.

Section 2. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled, That all the powers over
the Territory of said State, and over the people thereof, heretofore delegated to the Government of the United States of America, be and they
are hereby withdrawn from said Government, and are hereby resumed and vested in the people of the State of Alabama.

And as it is the desire and purpose of the people of Alabama to meet the slaveholding States of the South, who may approve such purpose, in
order to frame a provisional as well as permanent Government upon the principles of the Constitution of the United States,

Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the people of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri, be and are hereby
invited to meet the people of the State of Alabama, by their Delegates, in Convention, on the fourth day of February, A.D. 1861, at the city
of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the purpose of consulting with each other as to the most effectual mode of securing concerted
and harmonious action in whatever measures may be deemed most desirable for our common peace and security.

And be it further resolved, That the President of this Convention be, and he is hereby, instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of
the foregoing Preamble, Ordinance, and Resolutions to the Governors of the several States named in said resolutions.

Done by the people of the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, at Montgomery, on this, the eleventh day of January, A.D. 1861.